| Zepla reacts to Preach’s clip of the MONTAGE [FFXIV Dawntrail]
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They need to sack the writers and have a word with the guy who does the music. I forget his name but I know what he's capable of, his music is normally outstanding but half the music in DT is utter trash. They have one chance to change direction or the games dead and 80 percent of its players gone.
I can't think of a situation in FF14 where that song would EVER fit.
loved both of your reactions
Y’all please someone tell me soken had no hand in making this song….PLEASE SAY IT AINT SO
This song is so bad, all 3 times that it showed up i was cringing so hard.
poor Soken being critique on something that actually fits with the theme
Replace that song with the house building theme in red dead and the scene instantly becomes wholesome and heartwarming.
So fucking cringe.
That part really felt like "' 'member Kholusia? Building the Talos?" and most everyone said "yes, and that was earned, this here is not. Screw off" . To which the MSQ scurried off mumbling to itself "just you wait, it's gonna be even worse later when you least want it. I shall have my revenge"
This song is so Coca-Cola Christmas commercial
Train-ing montage.
I feel like they were trying to recreate the same energy as big moment in Shadowbringers where everyone comes together to build the giant talos to get to mount gulg. I personally feel like a similar song COULD have worked then. But
1. The task of building the train was nowhere near as massive an undertaking.
2. We expended far less effort to gain the trust of the people of Tural and get them to work together, making it less symbolic.
3. There’s no urgency. We’re literally sitting down doing nothing half the time.
It’s a song that should be reserved for big celebratory moments, but there’s simply nothing to celebrate in this instance.
Zep has a point – at least Machinations has a windup before you get slapped in the face. The Disney song is like getting blindsided
Orchestrion -> Replace Smile with Everybody Falls.
I finally realized what this song reminds me of the most. That end scene song of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, where Amidala and the weird toad guy hold up some glowy orb for some reason. And that scene is probably the only one I can imagine, where this smile song would actually fit.
It gives off Disney movie vibes and not in good way. Whoever advisor sold them that this was the trend people wanted should be demoted into a janitor position.
This gives me friendship is magic vibes
Love that the song is called "Smile" and when it plays it replaces your smiles with confusion and anguish.
woke lamat
I was waiting for Michael Jackson and the gang to start singing WE ARE THE WORLD
WE ARE THE CHILDREN
.
Thank the heavens for Alt-Tab
It's not a song that belongs in any Final Fantasy game. Wuk Lamat and Dawntrail's story don't belong either. This expansion reeks of corporate decisions, especially with how much Naoki Yoshida was out there publicly lying and feigning ignorance about the product during all of the marketing. Something bad is going on at Square Enix.
That song is utter dog shit. God damn, Dawntrail was bad. Imagine a new player wading through 400 hours of MSQ just to get to this DT garbage.
I actually don't understand the issue people have with this song.
I don’t have complaints with any of the other music is DT – I love it all – but Smile is just bad. It’s so jarring. Completely shook me out of the moment every time it played.
I can't fathom how a company can let this garbage song into their game. There has to have been at least one person not completely tone deaf on the team that spoke up about it at some point? Was this made by robots that can't experience human emotion? That's about the only way i can explain this emotional colorblindness required to pull this off.
Woke lumat and her friends. I swear I hope Yoshi understands this was not great.
The song has some nice parts in it but it is way too much of a "After School Kids Show Commercial Break in the early-mid 90s" song
I think I was exhausted when I got here cuz I don't remember the song playing at all. I may have trauma blocked it.